Get Ready for the 2020 Christmas Bird Count!

Get Ready for the 2020 Christmas Bird Count!

 

Golden Gate Bird Alliance is pleased to announce that our Christmas Bird Counts will take place this December. GGBA traditionally sponsors two counts — one centered around Oakland and one centered around San Francisco.

Spend a fun day outdoors with a team counting individual birds and species, and contributing to our understanding of bird populations. Both beginners and experienced birders welcome.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, this year’s teams will be much smaller in number and will require social distancing, masks, and your own scopes and equipment. Our Oakland count will take place on Sunday, December 20, 2020. The San Francisco count will take place on Tuesday, December 29, 2020. We will not host our traditional in-person dinners, but we will host a final tally count via Zoom. 

Cedar Waxwing by Stan Lupo

Registration for the 2020 counts will open in early November.

To learn more about the counts, please go to our Christmas Bird Count page by clicking here. If you’d like to register to receive Christmas Bird Count email alerts, please email our Communications Manager, Melissa, at mramos@goldengatebirdalliance.org. You can also continue to check our website for more updates. …

Oakland’s 75th CBC – Final Results

Oakland’s 75th CBC – Final Results

The final results of our 75th Oakland Christmas Bird Count are now available, including a comparison of this count with our first one in 1938!  You can download the narrative report by compilers Dave Quady and Bob Lewis and the tally of species found:

2015 Oakland CBC Report

2015 Oakland CBC Tally

Many thanks to Bob and Dave for organizing the count and producing this report… and to the dozens of area leaders and hundreds of participants who made it happen.

See you again in December 2016!

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2014 Christmas Bird Counts

2014 Christmas Bird Counts

Our 74th Oakland Christmas Bird Count took place on Sunday December 14: Read about it on our blog! The SF count will be on Tuesday December 30. Registration for the count is now closed, but we can still use a few more volunteers for the festive dinner after the San Francisco count on Tuesday evening December 30. Email nweeden@goldengatebirdalliance.org if you can volunteer, or click here for more information on the count and dinner.

If you’ve signed up for the count, you should be contacted by the team leader for your area sometime during the week before the count.

Now in its 115th year, the CBC is a classic Audubon tradition. It’s free! It’s fun! Plus the data on bird populations gathered by count participants is more important than ever. Scientists with National Audubon used CBC data as one of the key sources of information for their recent report on birds and climate change. Our efforts as citizen-scientists will provide a baseline and a way to track the effects of both climate change and conservation initiatives on Bay Area birds.

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